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Headlines Are Screaming Headlines are screaming and the 24/7 infotainment box lies smoldering in the living room like a nuclear reactor melting down, my own little piece of hell. Are property values up there or down this time of Depression? I was trying to escape, take the kids to the mall but the radio, good lord! Yes, the good lord plastered on every bumper now as cheapened and used as the explosion of patriotism that's stained every vehicle, shirt, hat and still standing building red white and blue were once virtuous purity and peace but now? Oh how did we lose the war before it began? It was signed into law yesterday the clock turned back hard-wrought civil liberties lost in the blick of a blinded eye for an eye, vindictive hatred is righteous now But ( there is always a but) that was yesterday and I am not hiding today under reconnaissance perhaps but still looking out for that little glimmer of heart that one dimming glow of hope and peace and unity I have a dream... but it fades in the harsh sunlight grows hazy, indistinct, lost there is a trick though: memory John Dos Passos, 1919: "'Tis the final conflict, Let each stand in his place The international party Shall be the human race." Is it Communist or God? Both have been claimed Nietzsche dead. Baha'u'llah was martyred by Islam an eon century ago, yet he prayed "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." I think, I believe things will simmer down, the pot stop boiling over, and the whistle screech silent if only I remember Thomas Fortenberry USA |